How's trade ?" "Fair to middlin'," answered the miller.

"Do you reckon that there boy has got anything ketchin' ?" "Catching ?" repeated the doctor savagely.

"What if he has ?" he demanded.

"Two epidemics of typhoid, two of yellow fever, and one of smallpox--that's my record, sir!" "Looks like my children will ketch a fly-bite," said the miller, apologetically.
A little farther on the doctor was stopped again--this time by a maiden in a pink-and-white gingham, with a mass of light curls bobbing about her face.
"Dad!" she called as she scrambled over the fence.

"Where you g-going, dad ?" The doctor flapped the lines nervously and tried to escape, but she pursued him madly.